[vtkusers] reading triangles data

[Berk Geveci]

Hi.
Look at the online document describing the VTK file formats
http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf

Did Amira export this file?

-Berk

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:22, Patrick Schuska wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am trying to read triangles data (I took the file from amira) with
> vtk. But it doesn`t work. There comes allways the same error message.
> 
> I think I did something with the header wrong.
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> It looks like this..
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> # vtk DataFile Version 3.0
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> Triangle Data
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> BINARY
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> DATASET POLYDATA
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> TRIANGLES 3790
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> …data…
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> can anybody help me??
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> Thanks, Patrick.
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> error message:
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> ERROR: In C:\martink\vtk42\VTK\IO\vtkPolyDataReader.cxx, line 305
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> vtkPolyDataReader (0x064B5200): Unrecognized keyword: triangles
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> my vtk file.
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> package require vtk
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> package require vtkinteraction
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> # Create the standard renderer, render window
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> # and interactor
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> vtkRenderer ren1
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> vtkRenderWindow renWin
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>     renWin AddRenderer ren1
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> vtkRenderWindowInteractor iren
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>     iren SetRenderWindow renWin
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> # Create the reader for the data
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> vtkPolyDataReader reader
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> #vtkDataReader reader
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>  reader SetFileName "D:/amira/ear2bsurf.vtk"
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> vtkOutlineFilter outlineData
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>   outlineData SetInput  [reader GetOutput]
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> vtkPolyDataMapper mapOutline
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>   mapOutline SetInput [outlineData GetOutput]
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> vtkActor outline 
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>   outline SetMapper mapOutline
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>   [outline GetProperty] SetColor 0 0 0
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>  ren1 AddActor outline 
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> ren1 SetBackground 1 1 1
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> renWin SetSize 600 600
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> renWin Render
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> proc TkCheckAbort {} {
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>   set foo [renWin GetEventPending]
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>   if {$foo != 0} {renWin SetAbortRender 1}
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> }
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> renWin AddObserver AbortCheckEvent {TkCheckAbort}
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> iren AddObserver UserEvent {wm deiconify .vtkInteract}
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> iren Initialize
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> wm withdraw .
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-- 
Berk Geveci <berklist at nycap.rr.com>